For your hard work – and excellent results! – in creating Spoken Wikipedia files this month, I hereby present you with this Audio Barnstar. Thank you for your efforts toward making Wikipedia more accessible! Maralia (talk) 03:50, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
So someone needs to educate me on how this works at Wikipedia. Not sure where to put my thanks? Here or on the person's talk page who gave me the barnstar! Ack! In any case, thank you!! PopularOutcast (talk) 04:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I watchlisted your talk page, so I saw your reply :) Incidentally, I am pretty heavily involved in the Featured article process, and therefore usually aware of newly promoted articles; are there any particular topics that you might find interesting for recording spoken files? I'd be happy to keep an eye out and drop you a note occasionally, if it would help motivate you to produce more great files. Maralia (talk) 05:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I am fairly random in how I pick them. I am, however, trying to record items that are coming up for FA of the day first. I do tend to pick them based on difficulty level and on my ability (or lack thereof) of pronouncing words in the article. Long articles or articles with many complicated tables and/or info boxes are tremendously tedious because you have to convert those to something that makes sense while being heard. I won't, for example, pick an article about Chinese history because I can not properly pronounce the names and places. I do speak Spanish so if you have an article that has Spanish names and places in them, I can do those. I am also a computer techie by profession so I can do articles with obscure technical words in them. I like to get them done in one sitting, so I tend toward the shorter ones. If you have something long you would like me to record, I can do that too. I'm just having fun learning about all this stuff I never knew about.
I look forward to listening to more of your work. Axl¤[Talk] 18:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
The Audio Barnstar
To PopularOutcast, for dedication to spoken articles. Axl¤[Talk] 18:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I appreciate it. Probably TMI, but having illness literally takes years from your life, in between, not only at the end. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 20:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry to see that. By the way, "TMI"? Axl¤[Talk] 20:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
To PopularOutcast, for your valuable work on recording 'Bird' FAs. AshLin (talk) 05:41, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Total bird fan here! Love doing them. I wish there were more bird FA articles of birds in the US. Thanks for the barnstar!! PopularOutcasttalk2me! 07:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
For the beautiful recording of Northern Pintail, today's featured article on Main Page. Shivashree (talk) 11:36, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Excitement! Thank you for alerting me to this and thank you for the Barnstar. I do love me some birds. :D PopularOutcasttalk2me! 16:53, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your work with the Spoken Wikipedia project. I'm looking to contribute (and use spoken articles) and your recordings are great for helping me understand how it works! MarsInSVG (talk) 10:43, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Thank you so much! Good luck recording! I haven't done very much in a while but am hoping to get back into it this year. PopularOutcasttalk2me! 15:32, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE October 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 20:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Great work! Oh, I had one other bit of advice: if you aren't already doing so, keep a personal cheat-sheet of guidelines from the MOS and syntax for templates that you find useful. There are a lot of little things that only come up in one of ten or twenty articles, not frequently enough to commit to memory but enough that you don't want to search for the guideline each time. – Reidgreg (talk) 20:02, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 1st Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 65 articles during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 4th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 47,099 total words during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 4th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting one long article during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 37 old articles during the GOCE November 2018 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for helping to bring the copy edit backlog to a six-month low! – Reidgreg (talk) 03:18, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 17:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for all of your contributions and happy editing in the new year! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:54, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 60,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Articles, 2nd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 37 articles during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Total Words, 5th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 44,633 total words during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Long Articles, 5th Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting one long article during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors Leaderboard Award: Old Articles, 3rd Place
This Leaderboard Barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copyediting 27 old articles during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Great work! Thanks also for lending a hand with the guild! – Reidgreg (talk) 03:25, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 6,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE February 2019 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 21:03, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 20,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:56, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2019 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 02:03, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
This barnstar is awarded to PopularOutcast for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 21:50, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
